Every Sunday in January the NGV is holding public drawing sessions. Particpants will be able to work with guidance from Australian artists Louise Hearman, Juan Ford, and John Wolseley.
Materials are provided and your own grey-lead pencils and sketch pads are welcome (no larger than A3). Come and go as you like between each session. Open to visitors of all ages and all abilities.
The first session on Sunday the 6th January with Louise Hearman was a great success, details of upcoming sessions below.
Sun 13 Jan | Juan Ford, artist
Born 1973, Juan Ford could be described as an artist’s artist who has exhibited extensively and has received several noteworthy prizes, residencies and grants. His work is represented in many important collections nationwide including the NGV.
Sun 20 Jan |John Wolseley, artist
John Wolseley, artist Expressionistic printmaker, painter and installation artist John Wolseley has travelled and painted all over Australia and the last twenty years he has been in search to discover how we dwell and move within the landscape.
Taught by perhaps one of the Last of the PreRaphaelites’ National Gallery in London’s George Warner Allen, John says - “A long time ago [Allen] ‘taught us how to do small abstract versions in pencil of old master paintings’. It was a wonderful way to learn about the dynamics of composition” and this will be the focus during his session.
Sun 27 Jan | Callum Morton, artist
Callum Morton is an acclaimed contemporary artist who represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2007. His works have been exhibited at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, LA, The Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin, the Indian Triennale, and in several Australian galleries, including ACCA, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Heide.
Drop-by Drawing will be held at NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, from 2-4pm on Sunday 6, 13, 20 and 27 January. Meet 19th Century European Painting & Sculpture Gallery, Level 2. Free with all materials provided. Personal grey-lead pencils and sketch pads are welcomed (no larger than A3).
For further details see the NGV website.
Free entry, no bookings necessary.